shazam

The streaming music world is quickly becoming one of the more competitive landscapes in the biz with each app trying to one-up the other. With today's launch of Apple Music, it should come as no surprise that other apps and services are adding their own wrinkles to compete with the highly-anticipate, highly-publicized launch...

Warner Music Group will announce on Wednesday, a deal with the music app Shazam that will allow for new artists that are discovered through Shazam to be signed to a label imprint. “There’s so much information that we’ve never had before as an industry, and Shazam is at the forefront of that,” said Rob Wiesenthal, chief operating officer of Warner Music Group. “When a consumer hears...